Giuseppe Becce

Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds himself in what seems to be an abandoned monastery. When the nuns return, a conflict is inevitable because Holinka is addicted to alcohol and gambling .

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.

Alois, Wendelin, Schani and Franz operate an auto repair shop in Vienna. One evening, Alois fishes the suicidal Hannerl out of the Danube and takes her to live with him. The timid and taciturn woman soon disappears however, and with her, a large amount of cash out of the shop's cash register. A disappointed Alois wishes to forget about her, but his three friends look for Hannerl and the money. As it turns out, she's married to the smuggler Kerrylis, who forces her to take part in his business; that's why she tried to kill herself. When Kerrylis is found dead, Alois is suspected of being the murderer.

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A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.

O filme segue a história de vida de Johann Augustus Suter, o dono de Sutter's Mill, famoso como o local de nascimento da grande corrida do ouro da Califórnia de 1848.

A young German boy meets his hero, a famous flying ace, and dreams of becoming a pilot. However, his mother--whose husband was a fighter pilot killed in battle during World War I--does not want to lose her son, too, and tries to persuade him to abandon his dreams of flying.

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

Impresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an important concert tour with opera singer Lauri Volpi. In his place, he convinces Friedel, a pretty music student, to travel to Venice to meet the famous tenor. In her travels, Friedel sends postcards written by Adler to his wife to prevent her from knowing his real whereabouts. When Friedel meets Volpi’s attorney, she mistakes him for the singer, and they spend days together in a romantic, picturesque Italy without him revealing his true identity. After his release from prison, Adler realizes two things: firstly, Friedel has been negotiating with the wrong man, and secondly, his wife has discovered the trick with the postcards, traveled to Italy, and started a storm of her own. But when the storm has cleared and the confusions are clarified, nothing holds them back from a happy ending.

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

Eva acaba de se casar com um homem mais velho, porém descobre que ele não tem tanto tempo para ela. Em viagem para casa de seu pai, enquanto toma banho no lago, ela conhece um rapaz e eles se apaixonam.

Eva acaba de se casar com um homem mais velho, porém descobre que ele não tem tanto tempo para ela. Em viagem para casa de seu pai, enquanto toma banho no lago, ela conhece um rapaz e eles se apaixonam.

A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.

Lilian, a rich young girl, is to marry Baron de Plessis, captain of the bobsleigh team. However, Lilian is interested in Tressac, the captain of the opposing team. When everyone discovers that the baron is a burglar, Lilian can marry her lover.

Conta a história do amor trágico entre uma aldeã e um artista citadino, numa atmosfera de romântico lirismo que remonta aos contos e tradições populares da Alemanha.

Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.

Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.

A Tyrolean mountain guide comes under suspicion of killing a tourist.

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.

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After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.

A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".

Because she has fallen in love with an unknown man, young princess Antoinette has fled to Berlin before her planned marriage with a prince. Incognito, she works for the fashion house Pappenheim, where salesman Egon Fürst falls for the young girl. Antoinette′s rigid uncle is sent to bring the royal runaway home, but he mistakes another mannequin for his niece, therefore taking the wrong girl to his castle in Baden-Baden. The whole Pappenheim company, including the princess, also goes to Baden-Baden for a fashion show, which means even more excitement and confusion.

In 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a corps of Prussian volunteers who the French then decimate. In retaliation for this betrayal, the people of Schranden set the lord’s castle on fire. When the baron’s son Boleslav returns to the village a Prussian war hero in 1813, he is faced with a self-righteous village community that has denied his late father a decent burial. Regine is Boleslav’s only ally, and Boleslav is Regine’s only ally. The conflict escalates, and the villagers set up an ambush for him at Cat’s Bridge …

O professor Mathias é atormentado por um irracional medo de facas e uma irresistivel compulsão em matar sua mulher. Com medo de ficar louco e tendo horriveis pesadelos, ele procura um psicanalista que se oferece para tratar do problema.

A taxi driver in Berlin refuses to give up his horse and switch to motor transport.

Um jovem mostra um filme que se baseia na obra “Tartufo” de Molière ao seu avô milionário, com a intenção de expor a governanta hipócrita do velho que cobiça sua própria herança.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.

O idoso porteiro do Atlantis, um elegante hotel de Berlim, sente orgulho do seu trabalho, que faz com dedicação, e se comporta como um general em seu resplandecente uniforme, sendo tratado com respeito pelos seus amigos e vizinhos. Entretanto, o novo gerente do hotel se mostra insensível quando o velho porteiro para um pouco para se recompor, após carregar uma pesada bagagem, e assim o gerente decide que o atual porteiro é velho demais para o cargo e o rebaixa para criado do banheiro masculino. Isto provoca um efeito desastroso no prestígio do homem e na sua autoestima.

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.

Variety star Kaja falls in love with fisherman Peter. But he in a unfortunate situation kills a man and is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Kaja promises to wait for him, but things go badly for her.

"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.

Scherben is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick introduce increasingly stronger disturbances into their daily routines.

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...

Num pequeno vilarejo da fronteira holandesa, o misterioso hipnotizador Dr. Caligari (Krauss) chega acompanhado do sonâmbulo Cesare (Veidit), que estaria supostamente adormecido por 23 anos. À noite, Cesare perambula pela cidade concretizando as previsões funestas do seu mestre, o Dr. Caligari.

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music.